Final Fantasy XI PS3 Version

[Onimeonokyo]

I know this isn't a new concept, but i figure we should keep complaining about it. I would really like to see XI released on the PS3. Release it at a higher resolution and with trophy support. If you wanted to be really crafty you could call it Final Fantasy Xi HD, as it would be set at a higher res than the ps2 version. As much as I would prefer a disc release, even a PSN release would be nice and it would save Square on distribution costs. Never doubt the obsessive nature of trophy hunters, you will add some long term customers.

[Demon6324236]

Doubt it will happen sadly. No matter what they add, the game is going to die in the next year or 2 I think. 14 will take some players, bad content will make others leave, and the devs turning down nearly every idea brought by the player base, will insult even more to the point of leaving. Besides that, adding new players seems unlikely as many threads popping up keep saying, this game & its community aren't very noob friendly.

[Shikaidaio]

Doubt it will happen sadly. No matter what they add, the game is going to die in the next year or 2 I think. 14 will take some players, bad content will make others leave, and the devs turning down nearly every idea brought by the player base, will insult even more to the point of leaving. Besides that, adding new players seems unlikely as many threads popping up keep saying, this game & its community aren't very noob friendly.

XI has been "going to die next year" for a decade now. Its been said when the game was released, when Zilart was released, when CoP was release, etc. It doesn't make any sense to hold of on any ideas just because of the possibility that the servers may shutdown in the future. Rather it would make more sense to try to get more players on board. Which will likely already happen due to the release of Adoulin early next year. I would very much be interested in a PS3 port.

[Leonien]

I'd buy it. Playing on a next gen console rather than an out of date console tech. And the trophy system would be another incentive to buy. Inb4 PlayOnPCNubs. I have plenty of friends who are obessive about trophys, its what makes the challenge, something to accomplish rather than going day in day out doing voidwatch or whichever event line is going on.
I would have to agree with shikdaidaio aswell. People been saying that for ages and what.. oh... a new expansion coming out next spring.Yep.

[Mirage]

Never doubt the obsessive nature of trophy hunters, you will add some long term customers.
Lol, no. That's not how trophy hunters work.

Trophy hunters get the games where you get the most trophies for the least amount of effort. That doesn't exactly sound like FF11.

[Demon6324236]

Idk, look at achievements for Xbox, alot of them are just "Level blah job to 75" which is 20 easy ones by themselves.

As for the game dying, everyone says it about every game, that it will die eventually, I say it simply because I think that I will quit by then, and most people with my mind set will probably leave as well, not to mention the "hardcore" players supposedly took a hit from Abyssea, and now the "casual" players it brought, are going to leave because of new content takes to much time to get rewards. This is simply what I think, then again we players never quit, we take breaks, somehow this hamster wheel keeps pulling us back to run on it...

[Vold]

If it were up to the players it'd never die. But I've always had a fear in the back of my mind of what SE thinks is the sub threshold of FFXI not being worth the hassle anymore. FFXI's biggest strength and weakness is that it's created and ran by SE.

[Camiie]

With XIV on the horizon for PS3, I can't imagine them doing this. It's got enough of an uphill climb already with its disastrous reputation. They're not going to confuse and saturate the market with a new version of its predecessor.

Besides, I imagine a true HD FFXI would take a heck of a lot of work and money. Whatever they did would have to meet Sony's requirements. I don't think a simple resolution bump would do that.

[Teraniku]

Never say never but at this point in the games lifespan, it seems highly unlikely. It's not cost effective at the moment. SoA will have to bring the FFXI team's "A" game or it will likely be the last full expansion this game gets, period. It has to accomplish 2 things, retain existing players, and bring in those who have lapsed subs and new players. If that doesn't happen, We will get more of what we are getting now, til the subscriber base or the RoI doesn't match up to where SE wants it at.

[deces]

Lets hope SoA dose not take 4 years to complete. Oh wait, I'm a PS user so I don't care.

[Rieul]

Whatever they do, Don't Port Xbox to PS3 please >.<;

[Sp1cyryan]

Doubt it will happen sadly. No matter what they add, the game is going to die in the next year or 2 I think.

THE RAPTURE IS COMING LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!

We have been hearing this <blank> for years. Enough already with the prophecies.
Someone might actually take them seriously, look at the people who prepared for the Mayan 2012 garbage.


bad content will make others leave,

The Devs are not putting out bad content.


the devs turning down nearly every idea brought by the player base, will insult even more to the point of leaving.

A lot of the good ideas take a lot of time reworking the spaghetti code that is FFXI. They have to pick and choose what merits an immense time sink and what does not as well as factoring in their own plans.

As for the rest of the ideas from the player base. Have you ever put yourself in their position? They are not Santa Clause Ltd. and they have wishes being thrown at them everyday. On top of that you have the ideas that are subjective that the community splits down the line about and argue over.

But, yes there are just some things they will not listen to. That is not to say it is a good thing or bad thing though.


Besides that, adding new players seems unlikely as many threads popping up keep saying, this game & its community aren't very noob friendly.

We live in a world where people do not even want to turn their lights on anymore. What do you expect?

This game is not hard to learn and play. Personally I find the community to be kind and giving to those who actually put in the effort. If you are someone who just wants to shout a question in PJ you can easily look up (the most frequent scenario) then no the community will not treat you nicely. If you shout for help for hours with something you can easily do by yourself then once again the community will not be that nice to you.

We have a lot of what I have started dubbing Wall-E players out there. Riding in their chairs, being served, not having to do a thing, and expecting things to be done for them.

They do not:
*Put in research into this elaborate game.
*Put any effort into becoming a team player (or even any real effort into their own characters development in all honesty).
*Get upset when they want more out of the game than they can from their lack of time to play.
*Get upset when others do not want to play with them because (in addition to bullet one and two) they have developed their own opinions bereft of any actual data. Then get an attitude on top of that.
*Go complain that because of failing to do bullet one and two that things should change to conform to their world.
*When people give them <blank> about it because of their ranting and raving they get even more attitude about the community (you know as I write this a player who starts with an 'R' and rhymes with Sh-moe-Sh-mina comes to night) and eventually place the blame on the community.
*Decide they are sick of not having things the way they want, place some blame, complain, and quit.

Wall-E players ladies and gentlemen, Wall-E players (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKiJjhBp6yc).


Oh, and even though they said they would not release a PS3 version I think it be nice to see.

Then we could start treating Xbox like the PS2 >: D

There, I stayed on topic.

[Demon6324236]

Ideas such as En-spells stacking with Excalibur(Or Excalibur overwriting it on procs) should be done, why? Relics are powerful & expensive weapons, by having it how it is they weaken Excalibur so much that Almace dominates it in basically every way except when mobs have PDT, then Excalibur pulls ahead because of Req bypassing PDT. Storage Slips have no reworking that would need be done, they have tons of them, they add more things to slips we already have & add more things to new slips every few months. Player ideas are not always super complex or unreasonable, and yet they are often ignored & never happen. I am not saying I want everything to happen, I simply want things that make sense & seem relatively easy, to happen.

I have my reasons why I think the game will die, in either case I do like the idea of this game living on & going to PS3 but the chances just arnt likely in my opinion.

[Tsukino_Kaji]

I though SE already said no to PS3 somewhere.

[oliveira]

I though SE already said no to PS3 somewhere.

Twice... Maybe more times, even ...

[svengalis]

Its to late for a PS3 version at this point. A PS4 version might make since as PS4 should be coming out next year but anything more then a downloadable version probably isn't worth it. Also I doubt this game will die in 1-2 years with the new expansion coming next year. That should add 2-3 more years at least to this game.

[Onimeonokyo]

I though SE already said no to PS3 somewhere.

Last time it was directly mentioned was at VanaFest:
"
Q: FinalFantasy.de:
There is no version of Final Fantasy XI for the PS3. Are there any plans to develop one? In Europe, there are no HDDs available for the PS2.

A: At the moment, there are no plans to develop a PS3 version. They already have the PS2 game, and they plan to continue supporting the PS2. They don't feel it would be the best use of resources to work on the PS3. Unfortunately, Square Enix is not a hardware manufacturer. They would love to release a HDD, but there is nothing they can do.

"

No plans at the moment doesnt mean no, just means we need to demand it more! :O

[wildsprite]

actually from my understanding it was SONY that turned down FFXI not SE, but then again its been mixed information from the getgo, some places are saying SE is trying to get SONY to support PS2 FFXI on the PS3 in software but SONY is refusing, who knows, its probably a mixture of stubborn higher ups from both companies that are the reason and you can bet part of the reason SE is saying no now is because of FFXIV:ARR, but who knows, in a year maybe they will change their tune if they aren't getting enough income from XIV, but honestly I wouldn't hold my breath since the players have wanted a real PS3 version since the PS3 was released

on another note FFXI for the PS Vita was announced, did that get canceled?

[Mirage]

I think cancelled would be the wrong word to use. That would imply that it ever got past the "Developer #2: Hey what if we made a vita version!?"-phase.

[oliveira]

The problem with PS2 HDD in Europe was with SCEE directors not wanting the HDD to be sold. They were strongly against it.

Turns out that they were right on their worries as HD Loader was devised/developed by a Dutch guy and most developers for the homebrewn PS2 Development toolchain were based in Europe to begin with. HD Loader used the free/non SONY toolchain and libraries for compilation. SONY got to sue them for what it did to legitimate games, not for it using SONY code.

Finally, PS2 FFXI has the whole coding for running on PAL PS2s in it's program, but it was never enabled because there's no POL Viewer for PAL regions and no valid title ID (SLES-XXXXX code) is assigned for the PAL release.

No HDD, no FFXI.

[Teraniku]

They do not:
*Put in research into this elaborate game.
*Put any effort into becoming a team player (or even any real effort into their own characters development in all honesty).
*Get upset when they want more out of the game than they can from their lack of time to play.
*Get upset when others do not want to play with them because (in addition to bullet one and two) they have developed their own opinions bereft of any actual data. Then get an attitude on top of that.
*Go complain that because of failing to do bullet one and two that things should change to conform to their world.
*When people give them <blank> about it because of their ranting and raving they get even more attitude about the community (you know as I write this a player who starts with an 'R' and rhymes with Sh-moe-Sh-mina comes to night) and eventually place the blame on the community.
*Decide they are sick of not having things the way they want, place some blame, complain, and quit.



This is a big problem with some of the playerbase. I remember doing a few Promyvion runs back in the day, setting up the time, etc. Even though I was past the Promy's I'd still farm up my Anima's etc. When the time came to do the fight, I'd say "do you have your anima's?" "What are those?" was usually the response I would get. A few people would actually have meds, so sometimes it wasn't too bad, but I could probably count on one hand the people who were actually ready for the fight.

[Vold]

Japanese threads gets quite the many likes. The latest FFXI > PS3 thread has nabbed 80 likes. This has been common place over there and SE still chooses to ignore the demand so I guess we're really going to be waiting this out for another few years before they're faced with the music of reworking FFXI once the PS2 becomes unrealistic to support. Tiny bit hopeful(I admit, extremely dangerous 'round c'here)that a few dozen people get shifted back to FFXI post ARR release to start work on re-visioning FFXI for a new era to ensure it spends another ten years steadily giving them free millions of dollars every month. Probably won't happen if 14 miraculously gets a second chance with gamers. History is heavily against it's success. Shall be interesting.

[Arbalest]

The Devs are not putting out bad content.


Going to stop you there.. You see, they HAVE been putting out bad content. All we've seen in a long while are revivals of old content.. Odin II, Neo-Nyzul Investigation, the Dynamis re-work (which is actually good).. and Voidwatch. Neo-Salvage only adds to the list of 'old content revival', even though it's not coming for quite a while.

If I have any complaints about the current content, Voidwatch is my biggest complaint. What can I say about it? It's boring. It doesn't inspire much strategy - the norm for any VW run is pop, spam temps, proc, spam more temps, mob dies, repeat. With VW being some of the only content I haven't caught up with since I started playing again, I really want to get it done - but it's hard enough to find people for clears, and combined with the content being so lack-luster, filler-esque, and overall boring, I can't bring myself to even log in on some days.

Oh, and the drop-rates, SE's beloved RNG; I haven't even gotten started about that yet.. the drop-rates on some gear from VW mobs are horrendous, and ridiculously so. Cells need to actually do something besides turning logs into petrifacts and petrifacts into logs.. It's called VOIDWatch, right? Not Petrifact-log-Watch? I've done hundreds of runs for some things, and I see other people get multiples of say.. Athos boots, in a single run, while all I see is logs, logs, and more logs. Maybe the occasional ingot - but that's no excuse. The RNG should not constantly reign over FFXI's players. And pulse cells are a terrible idea too. Let's take the horrendous droprate on an item, give you the option to turn it into a cell, and then it'll sell for millions upon millions of gil! Yeah, that's a good progress system.. oh.. wait, it's not.

FFXI has plenty of bad content that drives players away. Abyssea is one of the only good things about XI right now, because the gear is good, and getting Empyrean +2 armor doesn't depend on stupendously-horribad drop rates.

With Seekers of Adoulin in 2013, the dev team needs to accomplish two major things: 1) not take 5 years to wrap up a story after the expansion's debut, and 2) make content that is actually progressive, and not completely based on RNG. If they fail to accomplish either of these, then I definitely see FFXI breathing it's last breath the following year.

[Arbalest]

Japanese threads gets quite the many likes. The latest FFXI > PS3 thread has nabbed 80 likes. This has been common place over there and SE still chooses to ignore the demand so I guess we're really going to be waiting this out for another few years before they're faced with the music of reworking FFXI once the PS2 becomes unrealistic to support. Tiny bit hopeful(I admit, extremely dangerous 'round c'here)that a few dozen people get shifted back to FFXI post ARR release to start work on re-visioning FFXI for a new era to ensure it spends another ten years steadily giving them free millions of dollars every month. Probably won't happen if 14 miraculously gets a second chance with gamers. History is heavily against it's success. Shall be interesting.

A Realm Reborn is actually the game I'm currently waiting to see. Yoshida has done an amazing job of making an entirely new game over the course of 2 years. The zones look fantastic, I like the pace of the battle system so far, and each new piece of information I see gets me even more excited to finally play it this year, or the next. It does have the odds stacked against it, but that dev team has worked nothing short of miracles the past two years. I'm really hoping FFXIV gets off the ground when ARR finally launches.

[Luvbunny]

When FF14:ARR goes down in a fiery bonfire the second time around and forced them to adopt free to play, maybe they will reconsider upgrading FFXI to HD and remastered it for another "anniversary" edition and put out real advertising.

[Mirage]

You shouldn't wish for that. Chances are more games than AAR would see a cut in funding, considering all the money they've spent on it. It's not like SE has infinite money.

[Demon6324236]

You shouldn't wish for that. Chances are more games than AAR would see a cut in funding, considering all the money they've spent on it. It's not like SE has infinite money.

Psh~ sure they do!

[Chronofantasy]

This may be pushing it but i would love to see ffxi and ffxiv combined in a package sometime after ffxiv is released on its own for ps3. If they were to enhance ffxi for ps3 then that'd be neat.

[Arbalest]

When FF14:ARR goes down in a fiery bonfire the second time around and forced them to adopt free to play, maybe they will reconsider upgrading FFXI to HD and remastered it for another "anniversary" edition and put out real advertising.

The day SE drops support for their more-advanced and more-effort-put-into MMO that failed 2 years ago is also the day that FFXI drops PS2 support, PC gets an updated client with a graphic facelift, and it'll also be they day they actually start listening to the players and implementing all the best ideas from their fanbase; it's also the day when they ship their expansions with more than just empty zones and one quest, and they have the story mostly finished at release and it doesn't take 5 years to complete.

tl;dr an updated FFXI will NEVER happen.

[Behemothx]

When FF14:ARR goes down in a fiery bonfire the second time around and forced them to adopt free to play, maybe they will reconsider upgrading FFXI to HD and remastered it for another "anniversary" edition and put out real advertising.

This! Last time I've seen FFXI for sale in stores was like... eh, 2008 collection in 4th qt?

I'm still amazed to see new people sneak around, how do they expect new people in this game if the game is barely for sale anywhere - and add to that the problem we have even paying them following that C&B fiasco.

[Llama]

can buy it on steam

[wildsprite]

Last time I've seen FFXI for sale in stores was like... eh, 2008 collection in 4th qt?
last package that was made available was Final Fantasy Ultimate Collection for PC and XB360 which was not made for the PS2, the last edition for that was the Vana'diel Collection 2008,

I do agree they should port to the PS3, at the very least bit get the emulation code to allow the PS2 version to run, and perhaps make a release, several people I know with a PS3 that could run the PS2 version said it looked a lot better on the PS3 even though it was a PS2 game


can buy it on steam
did you completely ignore the subject? this is people requesting the game for the PS3. you cant buy games for the PS3 on steam.

although this does bring up a good point, doesn't the Playstation Network have a games store?

[Luvbunny]

Not only that. You cannot even buy this on Xbox Live. They don't even do direct download. Not even compiling Abyssea edition as Xbox disc. And yet we see so many remastered old PS2 games right and left released by other companies. SE also going to release a remastered version of FFX..... who knows, maybe FF12 which is one of the nicest FF to grace PS2. It's not that they cannot do it - they just will not do it, they will not invest in FFXI other than the obligatory updates. So yeah, on one hand I am hoping Yoshi to pull the impossible and created the best FF14 game ever. But on the other hand, when that does happen, you can bet they will drop FFXI and forced us to move to FF14. I am sensing that SoA will take a good 6 years to wrap the main storyline, released with a bunch of empty zones with barely anything to do other than leveling the new 2 jobs with LOL gears for a good 6 months. You might as well take a nice long extended break and come back later.

[Iakothm]

did you completely ignore the subject? this is people requesting the game for the PS3. you cant buy games for the PS3 on steam.

although this does bring up a good point, doesn't the Playstation Network have a games store?

read the post before his....

[Luvbunny]

can buy it on steam

Pretty much if you want to play FFXI now, you must play it on PC, at least until the release of SoA which is also available on Xbox. I seriously hope they release the greatest hits compilation on Xbox disc that include SoA so that more new players will be incline to give it a try and returning players will be able to have one disc with everything in there.

[Tsukino_Kaji]

You can go to a recycle shop and get a PC for half the cost of a console and it will not only run it better, but it'll look smoother too.

[oliveira]

Ha ! With the dire security situation the PS3 is at the moment I wonder if they will still release FFXIV for it.

[DarkMarc009]

You can go to a recycle shop and get a PC for half the cost of a console and it will not only run it better, but it'll look smoother too.

Agreed!

I Finally Got This For PC Off Of Steam, I'm A Returning Player From About 3-4 Yrs Ago. I Used To Play It On 360 And on PS3 (PS2 Version On PS3) And I It Looks Awesome On PC =) I Know For Sure That If They Remade A Version For PS3 It Would Look Pretty Sweet Too.

[Demon6324236]

Simply because you can get it on PC does not mean you want it on PC.

[Tsukino_Kaji]

Simply because you can get it on PC does not mean you want it on PC.You can(But you shouldn't because it's slower.) use a controler on PC. Not only that, you can output your PC to a TV. You now have the same thing, only with 10x the prossessing power and better graphics.

On the topic at hand, I'm still pretty sure I saw somewhere that SE gave a rather deffinate no to FFXI on the PS3.

[Mirage]

Ha ! With the dire security situation the PS3 is at the moment I wonder if they will still release FFXIV for it.

I don't see why not.

[Iakothm]

I don't see why not.

because the ps3 has been hacked like the psp. You can now get custom firmware and just download iso's and play them.

[Mirage]

And that magically gives you a free functioning FF14 server login?

[Iakothm]

And that magically gives you a free functioning FF14 server login?

for someone who bought the pc version already yes.

[Mirage]

You can't do this on PS2 with a pirated version of the game. What makes you sure it would work on PS3?

[Iakothm]

You can't do this on PS2 with a pirated version of the game. What makes you sure it would work on PS3?

I never said I was sure about anything there is a possibility that the iso wouldn't allow players to log in and yet there is still the possibillity it will. now here is the thing is Square willing to take the risk that could possibly lose them even more money on ff14?

[Mirage]

By that logic, no one would release regular games for PS3 either, and not for 360 or Wii either. All of those are cracked wide open as well.

In fact, the risk is lower for FF14 than for other games, because it will get the vast majority of the revenue from monthly fees, not the initial purchase. Someone pirating FF14 for so to use it with their already legally bought PC version would be an insignificant loss to them. The potential loss from people pirating FF13 is much greater, yet they still released that, and still will release FF13-3 (how ridiculous that game will be is a different discussion entirely :p).

If it was possible to get around the need to have a legit account to play FF14, people would have done that on the PC version already, same with FF11, and every other pay to play MMO in existence.

The danger of FF14 getting pirated on PS3 is at best exactly as great as the danger of FF14 being pirated on PC.

[Demon6324236]

Really the fact they are investing in FFXIII still is a show that they just don't know what they are doing anymore. I liked FFXIII & I still wish they didn't make -2 just because with all bad rep the game had they were better off leaving it alone, but a 3rd? Thats just stupid.

[Psxpert2011]

Really the fact they are investing in FFXIII still is a show that they just don't know what they are doing anymore. I liked FFXIII & I still wish they didn't make -2 just because with all bad rep the game had they were better off leaving it alone, but a 3rd? Thats just stupid.

Remember they announced "Final Fantasy VS XIII"... then forgot about it. Now there's "Lighting Returns:FFXIII"

WTF!

_______________________


Besides FFXI, you can see where they're putting all their hard time, money and effort!

[Demon6324236]

Its honestly like they are trying to take games that become media flops & redeem them with remakes & sequels. FFXIII was made to sound like a bad FF game, as such it gets 2 sequels to make it better. I like the 2nd, Ill possibly like the 3rd, but it doesn't mean I think it was a good idea for them. FFXIV was the same way, it popped out as a massive flop, they went back & redid the game, and now are re-releasing it, after basically rebuilding the game. What about 15? What about vs13? The world may never know, probably a little bit away because of these, then again, I cant complain, even if they aren't what I would do they are trying to clean up their messes & make them good, which is at least good in theory.

[oliveira]

because the ps3 has been hacked like the psp. You can now get custom firmware and just download iso's and play them.


I was thinking more with "cheating" in mind instead of "piracy".

@Mirage
Oh and FYI there's no such thing as "pirated FFXI on PS2" because the HDD DNAS protection is vicious and the simple glimpse of modchip patching code on the PS2 memory makes PlayOnline freeze on a black screen at boot. Also you can't get the discs to install with a modchip on the PS2. If you can't install original discs with a modchip installed, trying to install copies with a modchip is moot point as you can't boot the copies without a mod chip... (lol it's the egg before chicken dilemma, no ?) :)

So no, there's no such thing as people playing FFXI on the PS2 with pirated copies.

[Mirage]

I know there isn't. That was kind of my point.

There is a lot of hacking and cracking that works when you're only playing offline games. When you need to verify your game up against a constantly updated server, however, it's not as simple to get around the security as it is when you have direct physical access to the system.

FF14 is going to ask the pirated game "yeah well, where is your game key again?" and then proceed to not give you access. If you already have an account for the PC version, SE is either not going to give a damn, because they make the significant part of their revenue from the monthly fees anyway.

Alternatively, if they do care a lot about the initial PS3 sales, it would be simple to supply another product key with the PS3 version, and require an account that is meant to be usable by both PS3 and PC clients to be registered with both PS3 and PC product keys.

Now when you try to connect with the pirated PS3 client, by using an account that only has a PC product code, the server will be all "cool, you bought the game for the PC, now where's that fancy PS3 registration code again?" and then proceed to not let you log in.

As long as SE's game servers themselves aren't hacked, no one is going to be playing without paying SE what they want you to pay, no matter how ultra super turbo extremely hacked your console is.

[oliveira]

We already know they will REQUIRE a separated license key for each platform (The SE account website does imply that very subtly when you create your contents) regardless of your character data.

[Mirage]

If you knew that, why did you even bring up that you doubt there will even be a PS3 version?

If that is confirmed, there is no way a hacked PS3 would let anyone play without buying the game for PS3, after all.

I'm however not sure if "imply very subtly" is the same as a confirmation.

[oliveira]

If you knew that, why did you even bring up that you doubt there will even be a PS3 version?

If that is confirmed, there is no way a hacked PS3 would let anyone play without buying the game for PS3, after all.

I'm however not sure if "imply very subtly" is the same as a confirmation.

You did not understand what I said, did you ? I said there are CHEAT ENGINES out for the PS3 and they DO WORK on SEN.

[Mirage]

And you're not understanding what I'm saying. FF14 won't be utilizing SEN, it will be utilizing SE's own authentication servers, and these servers will not let you in without a legit product key, like the one you needed to register your FF11 account with.

[oliveira]

And you're not understanding what I'm saying. FF14 won't be utilizing SEN, it will be utilizing SE's own authentication servers, and these servers will not let you in without a legit product key, like the one you needed to register your FF11 account with.

You that are purposely ignoring the fact that I am saying people will trojan the console and hack the game regardless of it using SEN or not to be played.

[Luvbunny]

They should just go with free to play honestly, I mean it seems like they are adopting this strategy with the IOs apps, giving it to you for free and then nickel and dime you for premium price if you want the full experience. Resulting in some of the most expensive IOs games ever released. Which probably not a bad idea, since we can pick and choose which additional content we want to access. Certainly most of us will not even care about Legion, Neo Nyzul, Neo Einherjar, Neo Limbus, and Meeble Burrows and probably would save tons of money if it were free to play and just pick the contents you like to do the most. This also force them to actually make a good sellable contents and not half ass attempt at creating hold over type of contents. Bad contents = low sales.

[Mirabelle]

Personally would like a FFXI Mac OSX version. Rather not separate the HD out for a windows partition just to play FFXI on my laptop.

[Luvbunny]

We are lucky they still making the Xbox version.... If they are not even porting it to PS3 and WiiU, or Vita or DS3, chances are they are not porting it anywhere but keep it as PC version only - and Xbox +PS2 (in japan only).

[Mirage]

You that are purposely ignoring the fact that I am saying people will trojan the console and hack the game regardless of it using SEN or not to be played.
How exactly is the risk of this happening any greater than it is with the PC client of the game? You don't need to circumvent any security measures in the operating system or hardware of your PC to do the same to the FF14 client.

You've already got full access to it, and any FF14 client hacking could be done with a piece of software alone, no need to change firmware or anything like you'd need to on a PS3. How exactly is the PS3 client for FF14 at a greater risk of getting hacked than the PC version of the client?

There's no reason why the risk of this happening on the PS3 would stop them from releasing it for the PS3, when the same risk exists for the PC client, yet they are definitely making it for that platform.

Now if you know something that I don't know about this that would make me wrong, you should bring that up, because I'll admit to being wrong if that was the case. So far, however, there's nothing of what you've written that would indicate that the PS3 client is at a great risk of getting hacked compared to the PC client, and nothing that would make it likely for SE to not release a PS3 client.

[oliveira]

The problem on closed platforms such as the PS3 is that the game companies rely on the security provided by the system itself. On Windows even the data files are somehow encrypted, memory is isolated, processes are concealed or at best the game can complain about a debugger being loaded on memory while the game is run. On a console that kind of protection isn't available as it's not needed (a legitimate console will only accept signed code).

PS3 had all of it's older private signing keys made publicly available, which ruins the security for the platform. SONY responded by whitelisting things that were signed with the compromised keys, making it impossible to use the leaked keys to sign new stuff that would be accepted by the PS3 OS.

Now that the last bastion of security on the PS3 OS fell apart, hackers could put malicious code (cheat engine) on the OS kernel and take control of the game process.

The argument is:

What is the point of going through the hassle of supporting the PS3 now that it will risk the product (game) of more hacking, the PS3 will be scrapped soon enough (It will be dead in two years from now since it has been completely hacked) as it became the next PSP and SONY already has a platform almost ready to replace it ?

What you think ?

[Ryanx]

PS3 version of the game would be nice

[Mirage]

The problem on closed platforms such as the PS3 is that the game companies rely on the security provided by the system itself. On Windows even the data files are somehow encrypted, memory is isolated, processes are concealed or at best the game can complain about a debugger being loaded on memory while the game is run. On a console that kind of protection isn't available as it's not needed (a legitimate console will only accept signed code).

PS3 had all of it's older private signing keys made publicly available, which ruins the security for the platform. SONY responded by whitelisting things that were signed with the compromised keys, making it impossible to use the leaked keys to sign new stuff that would be accepted by the PS3 OS.

Now that the last bastion of security on the PS3 OS fell apart, hackers could put malicious code (cheat engine) on the OS kernel and take control of the game process.

The argument is:

What is the point of going through the hassle of supporting the PS3 now that it will risk the product (game) of more hacking, the PS3 will be scrapped soon enough (It will be dead in two years from now since it has been completely hacked) as it became the next PSP and SONY already has a platform almost ready to replace it ?

What you think ?
I think they'll release it as planned.

You say the sort of protection the PC version gets isn't available on PS3 because it has never been needed before. Now that it is needed, isn't is possible that they will implement the same security measures on the PS3 version as they did on the PC version.

I also think that if the PS3 is dead within two years, it's more because it's already an 8 year old console at that point, and therefore near the end of its life cycle and ready to be replaced regardless of the security situation.

[Laraul]

What is the point of going through the hassle of supporting the PS3 now that it will risk the product (game) of more hacking, the PS3 will be scrapped soon enough (It will be dead in two years from now since it has been completely hacked) as it became the next PSP and SONY already has a platform almost ready to replace it ?What you think ?

Security isn't an issue with the PS3. Sure you can hack it. You can hack anything. But if you are going to hack something, hack the platform that's the most open (i.e. Windows). I don't understand what you are saying at all.

[Llama]

A while back SE, stated they liked the idea off FFXI running on the PSP Vita. Seeing how Sony is losing money on VITA's as is, I doubt we'll ever see PS3 or PSPV version. Too bad, I'd love to play FFXI on a handheld.

[JouriStarz]

When Treasures was getting ready to come out (also XI on the Xbox) there was an interview where someone asked if XI would ever be released on the Wii and PS3. I can't remember the excuse for the Wii but they said for the PS3 that porting the PS2 version to PS3 would have been too difficult and they would basically have to start from scratch and if they were to ever do that they would want it to be a new game which is how we ended up with XIV instead.

[Luso]

For the Wii, it was because of the Friend Codes system that they weren't able to bring XI to it. A USB hard drive would've been the solution for XI's install.

[Luvbunny]

They will rebuilt and give us FFXI A Realm Reborn Again if FF14 is fail spectacularly again. They probably just use existing FF14 engine and "reappropriate" it for FF11. So if you want FF11 for the whatever console system being launched next, you know what to do, keep supporting the game, and just don't bother with FF14.

[Xikeroth]

THE RAPTURE IS COMING LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!

We have been hearing this <blank> for years. Enough already with the prophecies.
Someone might actually take them seriously, look at the people who prepared for the Mayan 2012 garbage.

The games population has been dropping, not increasing so yes the game will eventually die. That is a fact.




The Devs are not putting out bad content.

Compared to every other MMO on the planet? Yes, they are. All they are doing is re-releasing the old content with old fights we already fought and in some cases, throwing the garbage stagger system in (which makes it EASIER) to try to force people to bring every job. The content in this game is nothing compared to what it used to be.

This game was far superior at level 75 cap than it is now. FFXI also had a much larger population back then. If the game's content was getting better the population wouldn't be going down as frequently as it is and would be quite steady.

You can't use the excuse "The game is 10 years old" WoW is 8 years old, and its only going down in population due to the multiple clones it has.




A lot of the good ideas take a lot of time reworking the spaghetti code that is FFXI. They have to pick and choose what merits an immense time sink and what does not as well as factoring in their own plans.

As for the rest of the ideas from the player base. Have you ever put yourself in their position? They are not Santa Clause Ltd. and they have wishes being thrown at them everyday. On top of that you have the ideas that are subjective that the community splits down the line about and argue over.

But, yes there are just some things they will not listen to. That is not to say it is a good thing or bad thing though.

That right there is the fault of Tanaka. They have to rebuild FFXIV from the ground up because he screwed the games code up that badly.

Tanaka should have NEVER been in charge of a MMO. He not once, ever listened to what the community asked for or suggested. It took him over 5 years to put moogles in Selbina, you can not tell me that is hard to do when they are just exact copies of the ones in Kazham. I can tell you for a fact it isn't hard to do, at all. A successful MMO developer takes suggestions into serious consideration but the FFXI development team thinks everything they do is perfect and that they can't go wrong.

They started going terribly wrong when abyssea was launched. It got even worse when voidwatch came out. So much to the point a lot of people actually liked the broken game, FFXIV MORE than FFXI.

The end of the story is, if they don't listen to their players the game will die sooner then it could if they start listening. (For example everyone knows the new RDM ability coming out is total trash and SE is once again ignoring it).



We live in a world where people do not even want to turn their lights on anymore. What do you expect?

This game is not hard to learn and play. Personally I find the community to be kind and giving to those who actually put in the effort. If you are someone who just wants to shout a question in PJ you can easily look up (the most frequent scenario) then no the community will not treat you nicely. If you shout for help for hours with something you can easily do by yourself then once again the community will not be that nice to you.

Wrong again. My entire time playing this game I have helped people out regardless of if I would get anything out of it. I went out of my way to help those that needed it. What happened when I needed help, very few replied. Very few people even bother helping people when there is nothing in it for them. Maybe you paid them? Then again that would mean they are getting something out of it.

Regardless of how much effort someone puts in people are only nice to you and help you for the most part when they get something out of it. I'd say for every 10 people, maybe 1-2 of them are willing to help out and the rest couldn't care less about others.


We have a lot of what I have started dubbing Wall-E players out there. Riding in their chairs, being served, not having to do a thing, and expecting things to be done for them.

Funny, those are the exact same people who are making it in this game due to the lack of needing to know anything.



They do not:
*Put in research into this elaborate game.

1) New players generally want to try the game out, not study for hours before hand, this isn't school or a job, people play these games to get away from those. So your first point is flawed beyond belief and only proves your arrogance and self-centered attitude.


*Put any effort into becoming a team player (or even any real effort into their own characters development in all honesty).

This game stopped having a high requirement on this when the level cap was raised to 80. This is FFXI for dummies compared to the good old days. I wonder if you even finished CoP before they removed the level restrictions. THAT took teamwork. If you didn't then you have no right talking about being a "team player".


*Get upset when they want more out of the game than they can from their lack of time to play.

People want to be able to get the most out of their game time, not sit there in Jeuno begging for help from those that won't give it or waiting for a shout for the content they need.


*Get upset when others do not want to play with them because (in addition to bullet one and two) they have developed their own opinions bereft of any actual data. Then get an attitude on top of that.

From what I see, you're off in bullet one and two yourself. Irrationally thinking to serve your own views and ideas opposed to REAL data composed from people who have quit this game after recent attempts, one of the biggest complaints is that the community isn't very friendly, Far less friendly then in other MMOs. Which proves your entire statement incorrect and also proves you yourself do not follow data either.



*Go complain that because of failing to do bullet one and two that things should change to conform to their world.

If people hate a game or stop having fun, they quit. If people love a game or want it to be improved when they see something wrong they give an opinion or "complain" as you call it.

Its how MMORPGs work in the world today, its not the dev team is perfect, they aren't. All the successful MMOs in the world take player feedback and seriously look at it. The way FFXI's dev team handles things makes people feel like everything they say gets thrown in the trash which generates frustration.




*When people give them <blank> about it because of their ranting and raving they get even more attitude about the community (you know as I write this a player who starts with an 'R' and rhymes with Sh-moe-Sh-mina comes to night) and eventually place the blame on the community.

The community is to blame for quite a few things. The perception of FFXI from other MMO players is we're all stuck-up, serious, boring drones who follow this game because of the company that owns it and its title. They think we accept every decision the dev team makes without even debating against it.

This opinion isn't formed from people who haven't played the game mind you, its from past players that quit due to the refusal from the dev team to listen to the community.

The other problem is they think we're all too self-centered to help someone out when they need it. There is nothing wrong with helping someone, there IS something wrong when you turn a blind eye to those in need.

When a group of people treat you badly, do you look up to them? I bet you don't. Therefore when the community acts how it does to a group of people I'd say they have reason enough to look to the community with resentment. Its simple human emotion, you should try it sometime.


*Decide they are sick of not having things the way they want, place some blame, complain, and quit.

Most people quit because the development team has been going nowhere and has no path for this game.

Lets face it, Abyssea was released and the level cap increase was announced for around the same time as FFXIV's launch. They were both there because SE didn't want to lose FFXI's subscribers to FFXIV(in the case it worked out which it didn't)

And now FFXIV is being remade and relaunched, looking to be a far superior game to FFXI so far from what I have seen. When they announced "FFXIV: "A Realm Reborn" They announced the new FFXI expansion.

I guess you didn't pick up on this pattern, did you? Lets face it all the current content was only made in attempts to keep mindless gear farmers playing so they could continue to get our subscription fee.

In the past 2 years in terms of development and content, the REAL Final Fantasy fans have gotten cast aside so they could cater to gear farmers. This game has little to no depth to it anymore and less then 75% the skill that you needed when 75 was the cap. No new storyline to speak of(Nothing worthy of being called a final fantasy) which is what makes a final fantasy what it is. What little was given to us could be easily outdone by anything before. Even some FPS games have a better storyline then everything FFXI has past A crystalline prophecy.

You sir are what is wrong with the Final Fantasy community as a whole.

[Xikeroth]

They will rebuilt and give us FFXI A Realm Reborn Again if FF14 is fail spectacularly again. They probably just use existing FF14 engine and "reappropriate" it for FF11. So if you want FF11 for the whatever console system being launched next, you know what to do, keep supporting the game, and just don't bother with FF14.

I don't think FFXIV will fail this time, not with the positive reviews and feedback everyones been giving it. It may even put another nail in FFXI's coffin unless the FFXI dev team smartens up.

[JouriStarz]

They should do to this game what they're doing to XIV and give it a complete overhaul. Can't use the excuse of "what about PS2?" anymore since they are being left out of the new expansion anyway. They could keep a few servers of old XI up for them and anyone else who decides they don't want to transfer over but a complete overhaul to the game on par with XIV would do more good than bad for it especially since Tanaka is out of the picture now. Besides after watching the End of an Era trailer it got me thinking something similar but just as awesome could happen to Vanadiel.

[Luso]

Actually, the PS2 is still being supported for Seekers of Adoulin, just only in Japan. It was said that the user base for the PS2 in all other regions wasn't big enough to justify a release for that platform in the regions in question.

As for me, I want to know how Sony manages to release the "PS2 Classics" software on the PS Store. It is noted that for PSone and PS2 software that is selected on the store for purchase that the software was copied and altered slightly for play on the PS3; as such there may be problems with multi-player functionality, use of memory cards and other extraneous items.

If the method in doing this can be done to FFXI's PS2 version, then I would like to see it released on the PS Store as a "PS2 Classic"; I think that's better than an actual "PSN Exclusive" or "PSN game"; there are differences between the two, such as supported HD, achievements, etc. PSN Exclusives are built from the ground up, in most cases if it is a port from another network like Steam or Xbox Live, and PSN games are re-optimized for the PS3 (these 2 are not to be confused with actual PS3 games, as they are just digital and are just retail games uploaded to PSN). As such, it would probably be less work-intensive to just release the game as a "PS2 Classic".

However, if the PS2 Classics are actually optimized in the same way these other 2 types of games are, then I guess FFXI will probably be bound by its coding/engine forever until it either is shut down due to inactivity and/or SE thinks otherwise. I, for one, think that Steam was a good step in the right direction for XI to get more footing into the PC digital gaming world. Now, if only it could have a starting step into the console digital world, maybe we might see this game thrive once more or at least see more activity than what we see now.

[oliveira]

As for me, I want to know how Sony manages to release the "PS2 Classics" software on the PS Store. It is noted that for PSone and PS2 software that is selected on the store for purchase that the software was copied and altered slightly for play on the PS3; as such there may be problems with multi-player functionality, use of memory cards and other extraneous items.

Actually that's a excuse to prevent people from using old retail discs (which can be bought used for "pennies" from stores such a Gamestop) on the PS3. They instead sell the games with HEAVY DRM on their online service and charge for them again. Even if it's a fraction of what the game used to cost when new, they're getting something out of it. They would get nothing from just enabling full back compatibility. Basically that limitation is artificially induced to maintain control over the access of the said feature. Releasing FFXI on such format would require SE to shell out money for SONY and I honestly don't see that happen.

[wildsprite]

You can(But you shouldn't because it's slower.) use a controler on PC. Not only that, you can output your PC to a TV. You now have the same thing, only with 10x the prossessing power and better graphics.

On the topic at hand, I'm still pretty sure I saw somewhere that SE gave a rather deffinate no to FFXI on the PS3.

you must be getting some seriously crappy controllers if you think they are slower, seriously the PC has some of the best game controllers available for it, including PS3 and xb360 controllers, as well as some really good others

and it was SONY that killed the possibility of FFXI for the PS3 not SE

[Tsukino_Kaji]

Just saying sony isn't true, they pissed each other off. They need to kiss and make up.

[wildsprite]

Just saying sony isn't true, they pissed each other off. They need to kiss and make up.
SONY said no to FFXI on PS3, and I'm pretty sure they have to say yes for the game to be licensed for the system, it is possible that SONY is saying no because SE doesn't want to revamp the interface for it, somehow I doubt the 2 of them kissing and making up will change the stance SE has on revamping the interface for FFXI

[Tsukino_Kaji]

All of that of course is true, but the two of them still need to fix the current rectal-cranial inversions that they have going on. lol

[Joslyn]

from what I read about ffxi for ps3 the person that was incharge of getting converted into a HD version on the sony side left and then talks between the 2 companies broke down to the point that one says it was the others fault for not getting it off the ground. I don't think it'll ever happen unless the devs decide to completely redo the game code and re launch the game as a 2.0 model , but since FFXIV is coming to the system FFXI will continue to waste away till no one plays it ever again.

[RAIST]

All of that of course is true, but the two of them still need to fix the current rectal-cranial inversions that they have going on. lol

OMG... please give me license to use that phrase at work.

Thank you... I really needed a good laugh today!

[Ntwadumela]

ZOMFG! Imagine a Piano white slim with FFXI graphics on it? I would easily pay 350 bucks for that bundle!!

[oliveira]

you must be getting some seriously crappy controllers if you think they are slower, seriously the PC has some of the best game controllers available for it, including PS3 and xb360 controllers, as well as some really good others

and it was SONY that killed the possibility of FFXI for the PS3 not SE

What is slower if the response the FFXI client on PC gives to controller inputs. It's a platform specific coding problem and has nothing to do with the game itself (inner workings of the game client) or the controllers design. More like crappy coding (which the PC version seems to be plagued with) on the inputs due to it work using a wrapper of sort design.

I switched to using the PC version ONLY for commodity and versatility since it's what works better under my current setup.

SE never wanted to make FFXI on the PS3 natively because SE don't want to re-tool it as a PS3 game. They said that it would be too much of a money and time investment, not justifying the effort. I feel like while the development team can drag the game around while it's still profitable, the upper management seem to want it gone so they can focus on newer projects.

[Tsukino_Kaji]

from what I read about ffxi for ps3 the person that was incharge of getting converted into a HD version on the sony side left and then talks between the 2 companies broke down to the point that one says it was the others fault for not getting it off the ground. I don't think it'll ever happen unless the devs decide to completely redo the game code and re launch the game as a 2.0 model , but since FFXIV is coming to the system FFXI will continue to waste away till no one plays it ever again.Come on SE, even the Krackers got a 2.0 version. Didn't Krack even get like a 5.0? lol

[Kayri]

Bottom line, so long as they keep releasing new material in FFXI, people will stay interested and releasing a new expansion in 2013 will bring back old players that quit(i've seen it happen). If SE's upper management wants people to move on from FFXI, releasing new stuff won't do it. So just release a PS3 version and we'll all stop complaining.

[odericko]

I'm all for a PS3 version. Pretty sure it's not gonna happen, as XI is too far in it's life cycle to warrant anything like that, but it'd give the game a shot in the arm so to speak.